Uncle Vanya is a play by means of the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. The play portrays the stopover at of an aged professor and his glamorous, a lot more youthful moment spouse, Yelena, to the agricultural property that helps their city way of life. friends—Vanya, brother of the professor's overdue first spouse, who has lengthy controlled the property, and Astrov, the neighborhood doctor—both fall less than Yelena's spell, whereas bemoaning the ennui in their provincial lifestyles.